Lisa Sullivan Ballew

Attorney

I’m left wondering if life is really so hard for children ... that they need three weeks during the year to reflect, relax and fully integrate all the new concepts and skills they're otherwise mastering between 8:30 and 2:10, five days a week?

Moms and dads in sweatpants scurrying into bedrooms to hide from kids, sitting with laptops and phones, trying desperately to "work from home."

A Parent's Lament: February School Break Broke Me

Pull up a Playskool chair and pop a straw in your juice box, writes Lisa Sullivan Ballew, and let me tell you the truth about February break. (Alice Achterhof/ Unsplash)